Joshua Wong

Joshua Wong Chi-fung (13 October 1996-) was a Hong Kong student activist and politician who served as Secretary-General of Demosisto from 10 April 2016.

Biography
Joshua Wong Chi-fung was born in Hong Kong on 13 October 1996 to a Lutheran Protestant family. Despite having dyslexia, he developed organizational and speaking skills through a church group, and he first became politically active when he participated in 2010 anti-high speed rail protests. He then co-founded the Scholarism student group alongside Ivan Lam, and he became the group's convenor. On 27 September 2014, he was arrested during the Umbrella Revolution protests, but he continued his activism after his release and was accused by the Chinese government of being linked to the CIA. In 2016, he founded the new Demosisto party and became its Secretary-General, and he was detained in Thailand that same year and in Hong Kong in 2017. He went on to play a major role in the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and, on 29 October 2019, he was barred from running for district council; on 21 November 2019, the Hong Kong High Court prevented him from travelling abroad to Britain to receive a human rights award from Parliament, arguing that he might abscond there, and that he should remain in Hong Kong to help bring back peace.